PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1303553
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

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Date:: 1999-10-11
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1303553
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: West Chelborough
National Grid Reference:: ST 54166 05447

Details

WEST CHELBOROUGH WEST CHELBOROUGH ST 50 NW HAMLET Parish Church of 1/135 St Andrew 11.11.66 I GV Parish Church. Chancel and nave rebuilt C15, when nave extended to west. South tower added in 1638. Restored in early C19, and in 1894 when north vestry added. Rubble-stone walls and dressings. Stone slate roofs with stone gable-copings and crosses at apices. Chancel: 3-light east window with roundel in head, C19. North and south walls have 2-light windows with quatrefoil in head under pointed arches. Nave: north wall, early C15 window of two trefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a 2-centred head with moulded reveals. South wall has a C15 window, altered in the C17, of two pointed lights with tracery in a 2-centred head. C15 south doorway has chamfered jambs and rebuilt pointed head. South tower, of 2 stages with a plain parapet and pinnacles. Ground stage forms a porch and has a doorway with ovolo and hollow-chamfered jambs and an elliptical head. Bell chamber has one loop light in the south wall, and two in the west wall. Panel on south parapet with inscription: "William Lardar Esq. Thomas Horsford Warden 1638." Interior: pointed chancel-arch with moulded jambs, C15. C19 roofs, arch- braced with high collars. Fittings: Font, stone tapering cylindrical bowl with 5 bands of ornaments conventional leaves, cable, diaper, zigzag, small dog-tooth, mid C12. Wall-monument, freestone recess and effigy, round-arched with enriched mouldings and strapwork soffit, spandrels with shields-of-arms, cornice with damaged female figures. Effigy of woman in bed with infant at her side. To a member of the Kymer family, early C17. Wall monument of 1716. Communion rails, C18. (RCHM Dorset I, p.91(1))

Listing NGR: ST5416605447

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 91

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.